Long-lost lovers; briefing 60second.EGYPT'S top archaeologist has unveiled 22 coins, 10 mummies, an alabaster alabaster, fine-grained, massive, translucent variety of gypsum, a hydrous calcium sulfate. It is pure white or streaked with reddish brown. Alabaster, like all other forms of gypsum, forms by the evaporation of bedded deposits that are precipitated mainly from head and a fragment of a mask with a cleft chin as evidence that the discovery of the lost tomb of Mark Antony and Cleopatra Antony and Cleopatravictims of conflict between political ambition and love. [Br. Lit.: Antony and Cleopatra] See : Love, Tragic is at hand. Zahi Hawass showed off the ancient treasures at a 2,000-year-old temple at Burg El-Arab which he believes ncontains the tomb of the lovers. The pair challenged Caesar Augustus for control of the Roman Empire more than two millennia ago. They were defeated and committed suicide - Mark Antony by his sword, Cleopatra with a poisonous asp.. |
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